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God in Patristic Thought by George Leonard Prestige is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Table of contents: 1. Elements of Theism: A general overview of the terms like impassibility, nature, infinity, form and formless, holiness, indivisibility, etc. 2. Divine Transcendence: Creation, immanence, transcendence, God and the world, etc. 3. Divine Providence: revelation from God, revelation from nature, divine economy, powers and spirits, other `gods' 4. The Holy Triad: Deity of Christ, Deity of Spirit, Wisdom, terms trinity and monarchy 5. Organic Monotheism: Tertullian and Hippolytus 6. The Word: Substitutes for trinitarianism (Seballianism, Unitarianism), Logos as revelation reason and will, `Logos prophoricos' 7. Subordinationalism: Gnostic logos, Origen, Eusebius, `the Second God', Arius 8. I ndividuality and Objectivity: prosopon and persona, hypostasis, etc 9. Object and Substance in God: ousia, hypostasis and persons 10. The Homoousion: terms, Paul of Samosata, in spite of Hilary's misunderstanding, so understood by Arius and the Council of Nicea, a deeper connotation for Athanasius 11. Identity of Substance: Athanasius and the West, Basil, identity, Cappadocian settlement, physis, Latin doctrine's of the Trinity as different from the Greek 12. Unity in the Trinity
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- George Leonard Prestige
- Publisher
- Wipf & Stock Publishers; Wipf and Stock
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781556357794
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, World History, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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